What even is a "game tap"?

Oh sweet, free Psychonauts? I've heard so many good things about it but never got around to getting it. Yey.

april fools?

<3 Psychonauts

They've got quite a bunch of nice free "big" games. Psychonauts, Tomb Raider: Legend, Hitman 2, Thief 3 and more alongside arcade classics such as Metal Slug, Street Fighter 2 or Ghosts 'n Goblins :)

If they are free.. why can't we simply download them? Why the need for their client? Not asking an answer or wanted to be flamer just telling my 2 cents..

This article seemed half informative, and half advertisement. Specifically the "A 32 MB download is all that's needed to access free stuff like Sam and Max Season One: Episode 4, Blast Miner and Psychonauts." line.

Going to enjoy some good Mr. Robot soon, though. I was planning to have bought the game by now.

Half-advertisement perhaps, but it's true. Gametap is actually pretty goddamn neat, even if I had to lie about my location (it's a US-only service at the moment) for a chance to use it.

The yearly subscription is probably the best value for money I've paid for games in ages. $60/£30 (hurrah for the terrible state of the dollar!) yearly, and some of the games that pop up are brand new (they had Jericho and Tomb Raider: Anniversary on launch day) and otherwise expensive.

For reference, a *cheap* (as in likely PC-only) new game in the UK is £30.

So, yeah. I reccomend it to anyone whos interested. Oh, and a fancy little undocumented feature of it: You can create several 'guest' accounts on your main account, and give them to friends. Each guest account has NO LIMITS, and multiple can be online at any given time (last time I checked), so share the love.

The thing is that if you reccomend a game to someone and tell you to buy it, it just comes off as a reccomendation. With Gametap, it's hard NOT to sound like an advertisement, because it's a service from a big corporation (Time-Warner), and it generally sounds too good to be true, or at least has some big hook attached.

Let people grumble.

"SoC: Are you saying that I'm advertising for GameTap, Telltale Games, GameTunnel, or Moonpod?"

Really it's just the "A 32 MB download is all that's needed to access free stuff like Sam and Max Season One: Episode 4, Blast Miner and Psychonauts." line for a few reasons.

You're talking about Mr. Robot, but didn't mention it in that line, so not only did it sound like something off a TV ad, but it was a side track.

And the other was really unfair because if you're going to continue to recommend good games to us, you do have to convince us. So your goal runs along the same stream as advertisers sometimes.

But, and I'm starting a new paragraph to emphasize this, I meant in NO way to doubt your credibility.

And...like Dominic White said, GameTap sounds a little better than one would think it should. And, actually, I think offering the 4th new Sam and Max, but not the original, or even the first of the new ones, DOES make it not as good as it seems. But, I was enjoying Psychonaughts and Restaurant Empire for a while.

Forgot to mention: I think not offering the original Sam and Max is no good because I won't play a sequel of a game unless I've played the games before. I don't even care if there's no plot carryover.

Sam'n'Max S01E04 is the only one ever released as freeware.

That was my point.